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Alan Brown Le May (June 3, 1899 – April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer.. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers (1954) and The Unforgiven (1957). [1]
A dime Western is a modern term for Western-themed dime novels, which spanned the era of the 1860s–1900s.Most would hardly be recognizable as a modern western, having more in common with James Fennimore Cooper's Leatherstocking saga, but many of the standard elements originated here: a cool detached hero, a frontiersman (later a cowboy), a fragile heroine in danger of the despicable outlaw ...
This is a list of some notable authors in the western fiction genre. Part of a series on: Westerns; Media; Film; Television; Literature; Visual arts; Dime novels ...
Western novels, films and pulps gave birth to Western comics, which were very popular, particularly from the late 1940s until c. 1967, when the comics began to turn to reprints. This can particularly be seen at Marvel Comics , where Westerns began c. 1948 and thrived until 1967, when one of their flagship titles, Kid Colt Outlaw (1949–1979 ...
The Big Country (Hamilton novel) Big Little Book series; The Big Sky (novel) Black Hat Jack; Blood Meridian; Boone's Lick (novel) The Border Legion; The Border Trilogy; Borderlands (novel) Branded Outlaw; The Brave Bulls; The Brave Cowboy; Breakheart Pass (novel) Brimstone (Parker novel) Buckskin Brigades; Buffalo Girls; Butcher's Crossing; By ...
The Old West is a series of books about the history of the American Old West era, published by Time-Life Books from 1973 through 1980. Each book focused on a different topic specific for the era, such as cowboys, American Indians, gamblers and gunfighters.
Western romance as a genre flourished within the structure of the pulp fiction novel, generally written simply for easy reading. [2] Cowboy romances such as these are extremely popular for their “rugged individualism…unadorned masculinity…and ultimate heroism” as William W Savage Jr. notes in his book, The Cowboy Hero: His Image in ...
The first book was published in 1978 and new ones were added at a rate of approximately one a month through 2015. In addition to the regular series, there was a series of "giant editions" which were longer novels. The Longarm series was a mainstay of the "adult western" genre which arose in the 1970s.